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Emmett Till accuser, in memoir, denies wanting teen killed

Author Timothy Tyson holds a copy of his book on the Emmett Till lynching case at his home in Durham, N.C., on Thursday, July 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed) Author Timothy Tyson looks at a copy of Carolyn Bryant Donham's memoir in his home in Durham, N.C., on Thursday, July 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed) Author Timothy Tyson looks at a copy of Carolyn Bryant Donham's memoir in his home in Durham, N.C., on Thursday, July 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed) Author Timothy Tyson looks at a copy of Carolyn Bryant Donham's memoir in his home in Durham, N.C., on Thursday, July 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed) FILE - An undated portrait of Emmett Louis Till, a black 14 year old Chicago boy, whose weighted down body was found in the Tallahatchie River near the Delta community of Money, Mississippi, August 31, 1955. Local residents Roy Bryant, 24, and J.W. Milam, 35, were accused of kidnapping, torturing and murdering Till for allegedly whistling at Bryant's wife. A team searching the basement of a Mississippi courthouse for evidence about the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till has found the unserved warrant in June 2022 charging a white woman in his kidnapping in 1955, and relatives of the victim want authorities to finally arrest her nearly 70 years later. (AP Photo, File) FILE - In this Sept. 23, 1955, file photo, J.W. Milam, left, his wife, second from left, Roy Bryant, far right, and his wife, Carolyn Bryant, sit together in a courtroom in Sumner, Miss. Bryant and his half-brother Milam were charged with murder but acquitted in the kidnapping and torture slaying of 14-year-old black teen Emmett Till in 1955 after he allegedly whistled at Carolyn Bryant. A team searching the basement of a Mississippi courthouse for evidence about the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till has found the unserved warrant in June 2022 charging a white woman in his kidnapping in 1955, and relatives of the victim want authorities to finally arrest her nearly 70 years later. (AP Photo, File)
Emmett Till accuser, in memoir, denies wanting teen killed